In my 2007 Postsingular I have some giant aliens who look like Easter Island tiki statues (or moai). And of course they like to surf. Here’s a short passage where one of them appears to the main character Thuy:

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“Thuy thought she saw a live moai peering at her over Jayjay’s shoulder—huge, cave-browed, luminous, a tiki god with a pursed mouth that was almost a smile.”

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The surfin’ tikis also appear in a story I wrote with Marc Laidlaw, “The Perfect Wave.”

I copied the sky for this picture from the real sky overhead, then painted in the waves and the tiki.

Born in Kentucky in 1946, he studied mathematics, earning a Ph. D. in the theory of infinite sets. He worked first as mathematics professor, then as a computer science professor, coming to rest in Silicon Valley, where he now paints, photographs, and writes novels full time.

Rucker has published over 30 books, mostly speculative fiction. A founder of the cyberpunk school of literature, Rucker also writes in a realistic/fantastic style known as transrealism. Rucker took up painting in 1999 while doing research for his historical novel about the life of Peter Bruegel, As Above, So Below. He often paints pictures as a way of imagining the worlds of his novels such as The Hacker and Ants, The Hollow Earth, Frek and the Elixir and Mathematicians in Love. and Postsingular.